#You can't take it with you

[lizztaylor]

James Stewart as Tony Kirby in You Can’t Take It with You (1938)

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

My Top 25 First Time Watches of 2024!

1. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984) 2. Série noire (Alain Corneau, 1979) 3. Christine (Alan Clarke, 1987) 4. La morte vivante (Jean Rollin, 1982) 5. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973) 6. Les Nuits de la pleine lune (Éric Rohmer, 1984) 7. Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (Robert Bresson, 1971) 8. La prima notte di quiete (Valerio Zurlini, 1972) 9. Céline (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1992) 10. Angel Dust (Sogo Ishii, 1994) 11. Duelle (Jacques Rivette, 1976) 12. Les chambres rouges (Pascal Plante, 2023) 13. You Can’t Take It with You (Frank Capra, 1938) 14. Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra, 1985) 15. Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (Richard Blackburn, 1973) 16. The ’Burbs (Joe Dante, 1989) 17. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947) 18. Road (Alan Clarke, 1987) 19. Drylongso (Cauleen Smith, 1998) 20. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) 21. Little Odessa (James Gray, 1994) 22. The Company of Strangers (Cynthia Scott, 1990) 23. The Black Tower (John Smith, 1987) 24. Ocaña (Ventura Pons, 1978) 25. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970)

(My list in Letterboxd -click here-)

Happy New Year!

[back-in-2037]

1938:

2007:

I recently found a post by @dreadfulgentleman about how A Day with Wilbur Robinson, the book Meet the Robinsons is based on, was inspired by the play You Can't Take it With You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The play was adapted into a movie in 1938 by director Frank Capra. The black and white screenshots shown above are taken from one of the scenes of said movie adaptation.

To summarize, You Can't Take it With You follows the Vanderhof household, a group that consist of both people related by blood as well as others not biologically related to anyone in the family but that are still considered part of it and are loved and accepted as such. They all have quirky interests (there's a toy maker, people making fireworks in the basement, a lady who dances while she bakes pastries she calls 'Love Dreams', etc.) and they all live by the philosophy that you should spend your days doing the things you love most with the people you love most, because what else should you do with your life? You can't take anything in it with you when you are gone, so you might as well make the best of your time while you can.

And so every member of the family encourages each other to pursue their interests freely, no matter how odd they might be or if they end up causing their fair share of accidents and troubles. They stick with one another through thick and thin.

Sounds familiar?

I think its fascinating how one piece of art can inspire someone to create something else, which in turn inspires someone else to create their own art and so on and so forth. Not only in matters of style or aesthetics, but also in the themes and lessons these stories leave us with.

I think it is fascinating how some of these themes found You Can't Take it With You managed to find their way to newer generations through this other work of fiction it partially inspired. Because while I don't think most of my generation has seen You Can't Take it With You, many of us grew up with Meet the Robinsons and became familiar with the Robinson philosophy. That one motto in particular.

And I think that the way in which we can draw this line; in which we can look at the different branches in this family tree of inspiration, showing us how a work of art inspires another one that can carry its themes and lessons for other people to learn from across time, while also creating something new and unique, is something truly beautiful.

Specially for those who seek to create something themselves. Just knowing that the artists one looks up to were also inspired by someone else's art to make their own, can be encouraging, since maybe one day they can create something that will become another branch in that tree. Something that could inspire somebody else in the future, not only to create their own art, but to find the courage to simply live their lives.

To Keep Moving Forward.

[fairlycaught]

You Can't Take It with You (1938) dir. Frank Capra

[elusivereveriie]

my dreams of being an internet micro-celebrity have been crushed so i'm restarting my tumblr ! (first blog post)

(divider by dollywons)

anyways, before i go on i have a teeny tiny warning: this blog post is gonna be longggg. i'm a natural yapper, especially over text, but i've also been working for like... 3 days on this post since i've been busy with school. also, if you see this under the theater/theatre related tags, that's bc under the cut i'm kinda talking about some play i saw~~ sorry!!!! also likes/reblogs appreciated, i loavvvvv internet attention

anyways, tiktok got banned, hence the title of this blogpost :(

i only had like... 3,000 followers though, not like it mattered. a third were my beloved mutuals! i'm kinda sad though because ever since i was young i had dreams of being a content creator. i don't really like the word "influencer" because i feel like if i called myself one i wouldn't really be down to earth... but maybe i'm not that down to earth anyways because i'm like, always in my own world.

i should introduce myself though, so hi!! i'm brianna, i'm currently a 9th grader/freshman in high school at the time of writing this. my parents are both vietnamese but i live in america, and if you can't tell by my blog... subtitle... thing...? tiktok might be getting banned. *might* be. i honestly don't really believe it, but i wanted to get into long-form content creation anyways... so yeah! i'm gonna write my heart out~~

anyways, i like j-fashion, which this blog should mostly be about. outfits inspired by my favorite japanese fashion subcultures like lolita and gyaru! i'm into super hyperfeminine and girly and frilly and ruffly and lace-y and over the top styles, so i guess obviously my favs would have to be sweet lolita and hime gyaru. although, i feel like the outfits i wear in real life kinda have a dollette color palette with a himekaji sihlouette... or maybe just himekaji. (more stuff under the cut)

on another note, i feel like that "shoujo girl" style that's trendy on tiktok right now is basically just himekaji with more detailing and has a cooler pink color palette and less brown... or like, maybe it's just kinda himekaji and dollette and kind of the details of ryousangata and hime gyaru? kinda? i dunnoooooo... i actually noticed some people don't like it at all but i thought it was pretty cute. i just think it's kinda too basic for my taste sometimes... my ego thrives on being different or something.

speaking of that, i might get a bit personal here. might talk about how i think i'm like super evil. even though i'm kinda not. but like, i feel like saying i'm not evil... makes me seem more evil? anyways, yeah. i'm like those shoujo antagonists that are super duper cute and like really popular and seems to be really kind. and then they're evil. (i don't know what i'm talking about)

here's a picture of me from today, too! anyways, about my day under the cut~! it's a load of fun but i've already talked a lottttt.

it's a three day weekend this week coz of mlk. grateful, but unfortunately i only get to see my friends for four days instead of five days at school... and i have more finals on top of that.

luckily though, my school's theater department has this big show going on so i got to see my friends! i went with a group of three other dudes... actually four, because another one of our friends showed up unexpectedly so he sat with us. i asked my friend (who i'll call poodle coz his hair reminds me of one) if he wanted to go with me (and my best friend), but then it turned out that poodle was going with his other friend... we decided to join up though coz the other friend knew us too so it wasn't gonna be awkward or anything! oh, actually... the poodle's sister actually went with us as well, with her friend. they were kinda separated from our group though.

ugh, i actually kinda feel bad for being closer friends with her brother over her though?! because it makes more sense for me to be closer with her because she's also a freshman, and a girl, but poodle is a junior...

anyways, my theatre department-- they've been working super hard! a guy in my choir said that his school days were like 14 hours long due to rehearsals. they put out this play called You Can't Take It with You and it was soooooo good. it was a single set, so the set was super intricate and detailed and all that good stuff. also, the costume design was so gorgeous?? i don't really have anything to compare it to, but i swear... i loved all of the costumes so much and our drama department at my highschool is so amazing! i've been doing a bunch of fun stuff with my friends and it makes me feel like i'm in like, a slice of life manga... i'd say a shoujo manga, but that feels kinda mean coz a lot of my close friends are dudes.

actually, this is my world and they are all living in it !!!!!!!!!!

i actually have a close friend that's a girl though, i'm not only friends with just guys. i've always been kind of an outcast but also like, kinda normal? it was worse when i was in middle school because i was ugly. then i started conforming in 8th grade and i got some shallow friendships. and then i started being myself again but i'm pretty... so it's like, socially acceptable. anyways, because of that, i just find it easier to be friends with guys because there's no expectation for me to be like them at all. they know i'm different than them, but like, i like the same stuff they like so they're ok with me i guess? i dunno how to explain it... i don't play many games but i find them interesting, so it's like-- okay to talk to me about persona, ultrakill, nso, ace attorney, stardew valley, terraria, and like, all that good stuff.

but my girl friend is into fashion like me, so we really bond!!!! we're both into choir, but like... i'm gonna cut it off here instead of going on more about my friends coz this is so long T_T hopefully i tagged correctly! i'll definitely talk more later~~

[thursdaymurderbub]

Silver Screen magazine, April 1939

[arabella-strange]

CADUCEUS

[howifeltabouthim]

'Your grandmother brought you to the Plaza?' he said. 'It's her dime. She keeps saying she can't take it with her. You think she doesn't know how inheritance works?'

Chris Whitaker, from All the Colors of the Dark

[mellpenscorner]

RIP Frank Capra. You would have loved Go Fund Me.

[digitalfossils]

[newwwwusername]

Acid Reflux/GERD Fic Requests Open

My reflux has been getting worse despite medications so if anyone has any fic requests related to that, I need somewhere to work this out lol

My fic rules can be found here

The following is a list of fandoms I'd especially be curious to write for

Cabaret (Stage Musical)

Monster High (Live Action Movies)

The Amazing Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield Movies)

The Owl House

Arcane : League of Legends

Helluva Boss

The Play That Goes Wrong

School Bus Graveyard (Webtoon)

The Road Within

Tales from the Gas Station

Goosebumps (Disney+)

Death Note : The Musical

Spicy Mints (Webtoon)

Spider-Man : The New Animated Series (2003 Cartoon)

You Can't Take It With You (Stageplay)

Newsies : The Broadway Musical! (2017 Proshot)

[gladysgeorgiannagreene]

Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur in "You Can't Take It With You" 1938

[kwebtv]

The Cast of "You Can't Take it With You"

[thebestestwinner]

The top two vote-getters will move on to the next round!

[oscarupsets]

This one was definitely a contentious match-up for me. Rom-com You Can't Take It with You won over the war drama La Grande Illusion, the first foreign language film to be nominated for Best Picture.

You Can't Take It with You was based off of a 1936 play of the same name. During the film's release in 1938, the play was STILL running on Broadway. It was an instant box office success. The Radio City Music Hall had to increase to 5 screenings a day to handle the demand.

It was clearly a play adaptation, and it was wonderful. I have a soft side for screwball comedies, and this one was definitely a riot. There are also way too many characters, but not in a bad way.

La Grande Illusion is listed as a war drama, but definitely has some light-hearted comedy to it. I struggled to find a solid review from its US release, but many considered it the best French film to date.

Honestly, there was something different about La Grande Illusion. I'm not sure if I'm just getting desensitized to 1930s films, but this one felt significantly more sophisticated. And I couldn't even tell you exactly why (and it was not just the fact that it was in French). There were nuances that did not need to be described. The film style was simple but effective. It's aggressively political in nature without being overbearing. All around a great film. Great job, France.

As for the Academy Awards, we may have ditched the categories of Dance Direction and Assistant Director, but we've still got the weirdly similar Original Story and Screenplay, AND we've added a new confusing duo: Original Score and Scoring!

There were also some brief changes to the voting system prior to the 11th Academy Awards, but each source seemed to just confuse me more on that.

Current reception for both films is solid. Some argue that You Can't Take It with You is one of Frank Capra's weaker films, but still praise the comedy and the casting. Critics consider La Grande Illusion to be a successful anti-war film on par with All Quiet on the Western Front (and even more so because both were banned in Germany for some time.)

Unofficial Review: Watch both!

[jackbeauregards]

That scene in You Can't Take It With You where Jimmy dances the Big Apple with the kids is just so cute.